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The digital music market in 2014 saw many interesting developments with ten acquisitions throughout the year compared to only four acquisitions for all of 2013. This trend is continuing in 2015, with three acquisitions announced in the first quarter.
This report looks at the key trends and drivers influencing music funding and M&A activity in 2014.

Mobile World Congress 2015 featured a range of announcements from companies looking to expand or evolve their role in the mobile ecosystem. These included: new mobile payment plans from Samsung, PayPal, and Google; roaming innovations from Know Roaming and Taisys; the latest evolutions in Jolla’s alternative SailFish ecosystem; location innovation from HTC Sense; and Google’s attempts to push its Waze location service.

IHS has updated its Mobile Funding and M&A database covering the third quarter 2014.
Despite an overall quarter-on-quarter decrease in the number of deals and funding amounts for Q3 due to seasonality of funding deals, year-over-year analysis shows considerable growth in mobile funding amounts and the numbers of deals.

Mobile content, services and hardware companies raised more than $8bn in disclosed funding in Q2 2014; more than double the previous record set in Q2 2011. IHS tracked 116 mobile M&A deals in Q2 2014 making it the most active quarter on record.

Nokia, Microsoft and Sky Italia, have partnered to launch Sky Go on Windows Phone 8. The service will be launched on the entire Nokia Lumia product line in Italy in December. The partnership will expand Sky...

NHN Corp's Line mobile messaging service will introduce new video, e-commerce, and music services later this year. The new services will follow Line's successful rollout of a games platform that has helped...